Thursday, January 17, 2013

Cold-weather deaths continue this winter all over the northern hemisphere; if the large U.S. newspapers had widespread warm-weather deaths like this to blame on global warming, we'd never hear the end of it

An elderly Medford man who died from hypothermia was found lying in his front yard at 9 a.m. Tuesday, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department reported....He had power to his home, but his heat had been turned off, and temperatures inside were colder than they were outside, sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Carlson said."He had space heaters in the home, but they weren't turned on," Carlson said.Sheriff's investigators said bottles of liquid inside the home were frozen solid, Carlson said.

KANSAS CITY, USA - An Illinois man and two of his sons died from exposure to freezing temperatures during a weekend hike in the Ozark Mountains in southeast Missouri, authorities said on Monday....Rain moved into the area and temperatures plunged to the mid-20s overnight.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The number of sudden deaths rose rapidly in the nation as the first cold front of winter made itself known in Taiwan.

Cases of sudden deaths at Taipei Mackay Memorial Hospital, for example, jumped to four times their usual level over the past week, from an average of one case every two days to one or two cases in a single day.

As a severe cold wave gripped the Capital during the last month forcing many Delhiites to take solace in the cozy confines of their houses, there were some who were dying a 'cold' death on pavements and at other open spaces.

Mortuaries of various government hospitals in the city have received dozens of unclaimed bodies of people who apparently died of cold.